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KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - December 23, 2023
The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Tue Dec 26, 2023
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Christmas Eve Eve!
We announce to all people, great joy, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on his nativity incarnate, taking human flesh, being born of the Virgin Mary, coming to save mankind.
Christ has come.
is an infant in the manger.
We celebrate his coming into our hearts again this year and his coming in glory at the end of time.
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At the engineering deck, we have the great Mike Shane with his own inimitable endophatical ring tone.
Mike,
You've got the bona fides of the official ringtone of X. Chip Reidman anchoring in studio.
There is no ringtone like that.
That ringtone brings back many nostalgic memories for all of us listening to radio, men and women of a certain age.
Chip Reidman anchoring from our studio and chip.
brings in a little bit of that Iowa State and Husker fandom that makes for such great locker room proverbial towel snapping on our Saturday morning coffee clatch here.
And the great one, Scott Corey.
Scott, you and I are keeping our wives happy in our new little houses on the prairie.
You're up north.
I'm down south.
Scotty is great to have you on the line today
too.
Well, thanks, John.
And as you mentioned, we have a busy show today.
We will be partaking in the great tradition of Festivus, the airing of grievances that we'll be talking about that happened
at the Iowa
Capitol this week with Representative Andrews and Gary Lefler, as well as the department that oversees the Capitol grounds.
So there's a lot going on, but it is the holiday season.
I want to wish everybody a merry Christmas and a happy Hanukkah for those
celebrate that as well.
Well, let's get right into business.
Guys, we've talked exhaustively on this show about the debacle at Iowa's capital, the people's house, by allowing in basically the Satanic Temple had an altar
there in a
figurine of what appeared to be bath from that.
And after that debacle ended, another one began.
The Christmas tree in the Capitol Rotunda, which of course is perfectly acceptable under the landmark Supreme Court decision precedent of Lynch versus Donnelly.
All of a sudden, yes, it's not even the first of 12 days of Christmases.
They de-decorated the tree.
They took everything down like the Grinch did when he went to visit the home of Wendy Lou Who and all the Who.
That night, Mike Shane, fire up!
Mr. Grinch, you really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus.
You're
as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch, you really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus.
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch, you really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus.
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch, you really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus.
You're as
charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch, you really
are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus.
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch, you really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus.
You're as cuddly as a cactus.
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch, you really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus.
You're as cuddly as a cactus.
did the narration and voiced the Grinch.
Now, how ironic is we start to bring on our guests, Representative Eddie Andrews, Iowa State Representative from Des Moines, how ironic you are the equivalent of
Well, let's just say you're the Tony the Tiger of New Zealand through Ravenscrop in addition to singing that song, which was a hit record, was actually the voice also of Tony the Tiger in television commercials for decades in the United States.
Eddie, how is it that in addition to being vaunted, Iowa State Representative, you are the de facto Tony the Tiger of New Zealand?
Do
tell.
Well, thank you for bringing that up.
I was not expecting that.
But yeah, that is true.
I want to say, I don't know, 10 or 12 years ago, I ended up on a commercial in New Zealand for some exercise company.
And then that's what started it all.
I was a cheetah.
And then they said, you know what, need your back.
Uh, would you consider doing some Jamaican access to the rest of history?
Eddie Andrews.
Well, you know, it wouldn't be a show without characters.
I always love it.
It's a wonderful life.
It is a wonderful life when Sheldon Leonard says, would you currently escort these gentlemen to the door?
One thing we don't need in here is any more characters.
Nothing but characters on the Jacobson group.
And another character is one of the most.
highly visible people in iowa gary lefler the red-white blue trump tractor guy even my wife knows who gary lefler is because of the tractor gary have you been seen by what a third of a million people in iowa in the last year uh... my wife calculated at the other day and we've been in front of four hundred thousand iowans since the middle of may well we've been phenomenal
It's just been a joy and a treat to see so many I was actively engaged in the caucus thing.
But you really get to hear what's on people's minds when you're in front of that many people as you well know, John.
Just another, are you kidding me moment up there at the Capitol?
Well, let's delve into it because ladies and gentlemen, in Eastern Iowa, Waterloo's Eurapids and all of our big 10 states, as we cover the trajectory of Hawkeye sports and some great stuff coming up on Caitlin Clark and comments made by Kirk Ferris that are wafting across the Missouri River.
It's a Omaha is Omaha is about to find a potential national championship.
quarterback here with riova but let's talk about we had
a
rapid fire twenty four hours thursday and friday in the capital guys i lost at thursday when i thought that they had taken down the uh... the
all the decorations on the Christmas tree in the Iowa Capitol Rotunda.
I picked up a great citizen that had given me a heads up
on his
Facebook post and I began to express my disgust and disdain.
You two are kind of heroes in rescuing the Christmas tree.
Talk about this.
I'll start with you, Eddie
Andrews.
thank you john uh... actually the funny thing is gary had inform me of your post and i was just as you would expect any i would have a little trouble by that that not even after christmas but five days before christmas that the decorations were
taken down and i thought the picture i'd you know i live close and so i'm at the capital very regularly multiple times a week but i i hadn't been there in a day and i thought i saw the picture i saw the decorations were down and i was just wondering if that was just an earlier picture and uh... you know it's not even christmas yet at that point it was thursday and uh... so i thought why would they take down
the decoration for Christmas, especially, and I think most of your listeners are aware of the recent history with the satanic item that was up there the prior week.
And it's just precisely,
precisely, Eddie.
And by the way, Jeff Ortiz, I give a hat tip to Jeff.
It was his Facebook post that showed the naked tree, which
set me off, but I
digress.
Continue Eddie.
And so immediately, I just thought this can't be real.
And so I immediately called DAS or Department of Administration Services.
Those are the guys who run the rotunda that keep what goes into the rotunda.
They allow it or disallow it.
I gotta tell you, for people who run the Rotunda, they don't seem like they're very politically aware.
And I have to say this, I don't think that's an understatement.
Who's Cameron all tiring?
Harvard grads?
I gotta tell you, and I must say this, I don't think there was any malice or anything.
I don't think they're politically aware.
And I expressed,
the concern of myself and by that time I had received a couple of texts from constituents.
Let me just bring in here.
Was Gary Lefler goading you to, because I have a feeling that Gary Lefler.
Lefler, were you plant bugs in Eddie Andrews' ear here, Gary Lefler?
Well, you know, Eddie does wear the Superman cape down there at the Capitol.
So when you see a situation like that at the Capitol, the first one to call is Eddie.
going, and watching Eddie going into the proverbial telephone booth and coming out with his Superman uniform and cape on, and then right there, I mean, you just gotta know who to call, and it was immediate action.
The sadness though, John, was this, the ironic sadness was this, was just like a couple weeks ago on a Tuesday, 225 people came to the Capitol praying, reading scriptures,
singing song and we placed the nativity scene in there and this was our response to the satanic emblem that was up there and you know and don't don't mention any words with that satanic thing.
St.
worship is about child sacrifice it's about everything that's pure evil and we just countered pure evil with with the word of God and with scriptures and with songs and there was that beautiful tree all lighted up there and so
Some nut job at the DAS or some person up there like.
Well, Eddie saved the day though.
And this is Gary, your, your, your comments are spot on Gary Leppler.
So Eddie, so how did you rescue the mission?
Talk about this.
So, so you're talking the DAS.
So, so how did you rescue the day here, Eddie?
Well, we started talking about just what this means.
Did you walk down there in person?
Did you go in in person?
Set the stage for us, so to speak.
By the time I heard about it, it was, I want to say, close to four o'clock.
I went down there, but I was on the phone while I was going down there.
And so I never actually
did see them.
See, John, John, that just, that collaborates my story.
He was on his phone, going into the telephone booth, getting ready to put on a superman and uniform.
There is a, there
is still a telephone booth in there.
The lobbying shake down room.
It's got a picture of any of them.
But you know what?
I
just expressed all of our concerns.
Like guys, it literally is not even Christmas.
It's five days before Christmas.
And they were given some sort of answer of, you know,
Well, you know, who's gonna water the plant over the weekend?
I'm like, oh gosh, there's just some all these interesting
comments.
I want to know that because there's been this is a live tree or a dead tree or an artificial fish.
It's a real tree.
Okay, so there are millions of homes that for generations in America have had live trees.
It's called water the tree and unplug the life when you leave.
What is so hard about this, Eddie Andrews,
representing?
Well, that was one of my questions.
It was one of my questions.
What is so hard about that?
And long story short, we kind of went round and round, talked to one guy, talked to another lady, got back and forth.
And by that time, like I said, it was getting close to five o'clock or thereabouts.
So the important people were going to be gone.
And so we just said, call me first thing in the morning.
And so by Friday morning, we had the tree redecorated.
They asked to calculate now, tell me about this 12 days of Christmas thing again, and how many days was it supposed to be up and all that.
So there you go.
There's
studio audiences on their feet.
This is a standing O's studio audience audio right now Leftward you you are such a great mischief maker and I can just see I mean frankly Scott Corey if I'm the governor I'm taking care of that five seconds myself.
I am telling the Grinch
to go back up there with Max's dog and the sled and get those candy canes and throw them back on the tree and Pat Cindy Luhu on the head again with tons of presents down there.
Scotty, you can't make this stuff up, but isn't this what the Toeville from France loved about America?
The citizens and private citizens roll up their sleeves and getter to Scott Corey.
Well, absolutely, John.
And it's a sad state of affairs that here in Iowa, you know, the beacon of the Midwest, Iowa, nice values that the last basically two and a half, three weeks has been nothing but debauchery and a lot of demonic type situation going on there in the in the Golden Dome, the Iowa Capitol from as it was mentioned, the Satanic Temple that was was put up in the in the rotunda.
And now Christmas trees are taken down before Christmas.
I know I'm trying not to be too political about this, but maybe if Governor Kim Reynolds spent more time actually in the Capitol building and running the government and sit out there being in front of CNN all the time, we wouldn't have this kind of nonsense.
Or just simply, you know, reminding everyone in the executive branch that the duties of that office are not to propose budgets, not even to delve with tax policy.
or criminal justice policy that the executive branch's jobs are around the departments
and
agencies.
And yes, legally, there was no business whatsoever that had the Satanic Temple allowed in there with an altar and with an image, a figurine of what appeared to be Baphomet.
I still say that is in
A contravention that it fails the three pronged lynch lemon test from rich versus donnelly Religious accommodation the same case that properly allows in christmas trees nativity sets and menorahs for Hanukkah and uh... chip reedman i like your take as a nebraskan uh... it looks like we're the gang that can't shoot straight chip uh...
Do you see this stuff over in Nebraska periodically too?
Talk to me,
Jeff.
No, nothing like that.
And I think you and Scott and everyone's made some good points.
The question or the picture in my mind that I have is the poor guy or persons.
that work underneath these bureaucrats that first they put up the tree and they're probably used to that.
I mean most Iowans I'm sure are used to putting up a Christmas tree, no big deal.
And then the order comes down to go take it off.
So these people have to go out there.
get the ladders up or whatever and take it off and then now they're coming back and saying okay let's decorate again and they're back out there putting the tree up for some reason i just kind of feel sorry that about the staff that's working there going what is going on in this place you know first i got the satan thing going on and everyone you know screams about that now i've got a tree and they can't get that straight it's i wouldn't even know what i was doing coming in to work the next morning
you know it doesn't matter it's all government in action
Yeah, Gary.
Gary, what's your zeitgeist that you're getting from Iowans?
You have taken your tractor, your red-white blue tractor out to almost every county in Iowa.
Are people getting sick of this?
Even loyal Republicans, are they starting to feel like there's drift going on in Iowa with ironically Republican trifecta?
Is there restlessness among the people?
There's been a lot to be encouraged by, but at the same time and point, you see stupid stuff like this going on and people are just like throwing their hands up in the air and you're like, are you going to be kidding me?
A lot of the times, but I will say this, I will say this.
We saw some concerned citizens.
We took it to a legislator.
We made you aware of it, John.
Eddie did his thing, the people did their thing, and now here you are on your show, you know, exposing what's going on and making people aware of it.
So in a kind of roundabout way, the process actually is working, but it takes concerned citizens everywhere I go.
People ask me all the time.
What one of them is this?
What was our governor thinking about endorsing DeSantis?
I'm not going to get into that.
But the whole thing is that if the people just got to go to their town hall meetings, they got to be involved in local government.
And that's where that's really where the ball starts.
You know, well said, Gary.
And representative, State Representative Eddie Andrews, I can't tell you what a joy it was.
to have you as my erstwhile colleague and deskmate while I was there at the legislature.
You're truly one of the great, trustworthy, decent, honorable, and courageous men that serves in that legislative body.
And I'm so appreciative to you for having
the eye
on the ball yesterday and getting resolution and a great outcome for this.
God bless you, Representative
Eddie
Andrews.
Thank you.
And those are great words coming from the great John Jacobson, one of the smartest guys ever to represent the state of the state house.
Well, Eddie,
no,
representative Andrews, I gotta
Quick question for you.
Is it true that when John Jacobson gave his farewell address that everybody was popping champagne and it was a lot of capital
in 150 years?
That is not a rumor.
That
is true.
I was buying the champagne.
I gotta tell you though, you brought it up though.
In a fashion that only John Jacobson can do.
Finishes, you know, most people have their retirement speeches and then they sit down and we clap right only John Jacobson on his way out had his great rousing John Wayne asked Reagan asked speech and brought all kinds of emotions and the military and patriotism and on his way out he grabbed his wife walked out of the chamber
as if it's a John Wayne movie in the sunset.
And it's, I mean, it was just so fitting to have him.
And we
all looked at like only
John
Jacobs.
What a patriot this guy is.
Actually, everyone in the state of Iowa.
is waiting for the John Jacobson sequel.
We want to see John Jacobson 2.0.
The audience is sitting there, you know, every time I go to the theater and it's like, coming next year at John Jacobson, I'm like, where's the trailer at, man?
Scott, I'm worried the devil will send me back because she won't want me here in Ottawa.
Well, you got to worry about that too, John, but if rumor has it, and I've seen the security camera footage from the parking lot, you did a Richard Nixon boarding
Marine One with the fingers salutes, and then you got in your
Honda and
drove off
the Capitol complex.
Well, I was kind of more like Jerry...
Stiller on Seinfeld, after being impeached, giving the Nixon victory signs, leaving Del Boca Festa, Florida, Cato Association.
Well, listen, guys, here's what's beautiful about this.
That tree wasn't such a bad little Christmas tree.
All it need was a little love and care and kind of like what
Linus told Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown was depressed, his Christmas tree didn't look so well, and Linus showed him, and the friends there, how old decorating could revive that tree and the real meaning of Christmas itself.
As only Linus could do, when Linus, we will hear here, the only time in Peanuts history that he dropped his blanket was when he was reciting.
from the Gospel.
The angel saying, be not afraid.
And Linus dropped his security blanket.
Let's pick it up.
The real meaning of Christmas, guys.
Short clip here from the Chuck Jones, Charles Schultz, Charlie Brown Christmas.
Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?
Sure, Charlie Brown.
I can tell you what Christmas is all about.
Linus, please.
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night, and lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them.
The glory of the Lord showed round about them, and they were so afraid, and the angel said unto them, Fear not!
For behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, just Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you.
He shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in the manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel, a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, put a will toward men.
It goes to Charles Schultz and Lee Mendelssohn
and
Bill Melendez, who put that together.
final thought from gary and from rivers of andrew's gary you know this in the last week uh... my grandchildren were in one of those good old-fashioned church christmas programs my granddaughters and angel one of the sheet to her shepherds and
Just that old Christmas story told so many times in those old country churches with the kids doing and just sharing the reenactment of the birth of Christ.
I tell you guys, it just like just melt you as a man and it just encourages you that things like this, things are worth standing up for and things are standing worth fighting for.
And John, I appreciate the opportunity to be on your show today and I look forward to
uh... so uh... many more ventures ahead and but uh... god bless america all beautifully said gary lefler representative eddie andrews i'll give you the final word when when gary of course talked about seeing the grandkids and that is that those things are just beautiful to see as a grandfather watching these dance recitals and these other things of course reds of interest my proudest part as a parent
Watching a Christmas show was when my son Peter won the lead as Ebenezer Scooch in a Christmas Carol in eighth grade at the St.
Cecilia Cathedral Elementary.
And Eddie, I paid him $100 to change the script so that when Scooch looked down at the little boy on Christmas morning, all rejuvenated and wanted him to go get the prize-winning turkey for the cratchets.
When he said a fine lad, an enterprising lad, a marvelous boy, I had my son change the script to a fine lad, an enterprising lad, a marvelous boy, a Republican, to the audible gasps of the 500 Democrat parents in attendance.
Eddie, it was my proudest, finest hour as a parent, altering the script if it's a Christmas, Gerald.
You have the final word, Eddie.
If you think about that all you all the director had to tell his grandson was to replicate you Thank
you to you John of course and and the other team members and To Gary one of a kind Gary Lefler Yeah, it really is a pleasure to serve it really is a pleasure to serve and especially as we are
reminded during this time of Advent that in the words of a Kirk Franklin, Jesus is the reason for the season.
we
could
do to celebrate at the Capitol is wonderful and we have to maintain that the right place for Christ in Christmas.
Amen.
Well, as we outro here in anticipation of our second
segment acts to our great sports update coming just around the corner.
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Chip Redmond and Scott Corey what the sports of the day so much going on in Big Ten land in Hawkeye land and in Hustler land take it away Chip and Scotty
Well, it's a busy day once again in Hawkeye Nation Thursday night before we get into the football schedule and the talks that happened but Thursday night
Caitlyn Clark did Caitlyn Clark things, another triple double in front of a sellout crowd at Carver Hawkeye Arena with 35.17 rebounds and 10 assists.
She has been named co-athlete of the year by several national magazines.
news industry publications, and it just shows that wherever the Iowa Hawkeyes go with Lisa Bluter and Kate Lake-Clarke, they are selling out arenas.
Arenas have now been sold out right after the first of the year in Rutgers, which will ironically be honoring former Iowa coach as well as former Rutgers coach Steve Vivian Stringer before the game.
So that would be a very emotional game.
For both teams, but Chip, it just shows the power and the draw right now, the Iowa Hawkeyes with Caitlin Clark.
She is, in my opinion, the face of not only women's basketball, but men's basketball.
She is the face of everything.
She really is.
She's a dominant player.
She's a good PR for the state, for the university.
I happen to hear on the radio that she just posted, I think her 13th triple double, am I right on that?
Yes, unbelievable stat.
It is an unbelievable stat.
She's got most of the season to go, maybe what, two-thirds of the season yet to play, so it's going to be amazing what she gets tallied up by the end of the year.
It sure is, and we also have some very interesting news this week as well.
It was National Signing Day earlier in the week, Chip, but Curt Ferrance actually made a little bit of news.
It was reported by Pat Hardy that Joe Philbin would be the new offensive coordinator.
Kurt kind of rebuffed it a little bit saying that he's talked to three people and that announcement for the offensive coordinator position will be made after the bowl game.
It is widely speculated in Hawkeye circles that Joe Philbin would be one of the presumed candidates as well as former Wisconsin head football coach Paul Crisp who is a close confidant of Kurt Farrance.
They have a very good working relationship.
so it was very interesting but kirk also threw a little shade out there and it's not too uh... subtle uh... jabs that uh... lincoln riley at u s c with some of their their antics and uh... i kind of think that kirk kind of had a a activist of his own during his press conference he just kind of let it rip all week
yeah i i caught that i thought it was interesting and frankly as a Nebraska fan i don't have a problem with what he said and for those who may have missed that he the jab was about
questioning taking a player that was at three different high schools during his high school career, which definitely fits Riola and the new quarterback that Nebraska picked up, five-star player that not only has been to three high schools, but he's also been committed to three colleges, Ohio State, Georgia, and then the last minute flipping to Nebraska.
For the record, to sort of understand, Riola does have a very, very strong tie with Nebraska.
His dad was in a former Outland winner lineman.
Center for the University of Nebraska with an excellent pro career.
His uncle is the offensive line coach at Nebraska.
So there's definitely some strong ties there.
Maybe they were always in the background.
Maybe his commitment to Georgia was a little bit hastened too much with Georgia and their marvelous record that they have down there.
But I agree that Kirk has a good point.
I thought the same thing about the high school changes.
makes you wonder about his I'm not going to say mental stability but his ability to just you know commit to something and stay with it and the same would apply with his changing of the schools that he committed to but on the high school just throwing out one counter fact on that one of the high school changes I believe was precipitated by the state of
I forget what he said, it was maybe Arizona.
They question his transfer, the transfer that he's going to make, or something that he did, and so they end up just doing another transfer just because of what the state threw at him.
So he ended up going to a different school.
So there's always two sides to his story.
You got to keep that in mind.
But, you know, we are what we are.
We have what we have.
We've got a top 20 recruiting class from what they're saying.
None of us are going to reach Ohio State.
None of us are going to reach Oregon.
I just saw a headline today that said that Oregon may be competing against Ohio State with the best recruiting class.
So we've got an interesting year coming up ahead of us.
We sure do and I think you know one thing to keep in mind that I've had a lot of conversations with With a lot of Hawkeye fans and donors is that it is an important week with you get the signing class coming in
But, you know, we see a lot of accolades going to Nebraska, Oregon, as well as Ohio State year and a year out.
But there's just always that quiet confidence in Hawkeye's nation that at the end of the day, when it comes to evaluating talent and players that fit a certain cultural mold, Curt Ferris as well as LeVar Woods and Phil Parker continually take
guys that might be flying a little bit under the radar.
You know, look at Cooper Dejean from Odebal Arts or Battle Creek, how to grow.
He was a one to two star, depending on what ranking service you looked at.
And now he's an all-American.
He will be going up in the Ring of Honor at some point at Kenick Stadium.
And he has a huge decision to make after the bowl game, whether to come back to Iowa one more year or go to the NFL.
And so it just kind of shows that there's just two types of ways of looking at recruiting.
A lot of teams are very fortunate.
They can get the four and five and star recruits.
And then there's the rebuild programs.
They're kind of like our Iowa where they traditionally build from the high school ranks.
And then they fill in the holes from the transfer portal.
So it can be very interesting.
to see how this transpires.
But college football is always changing, and we have breaking news Friday morning, Chip.
Florida State Board of Trustees has announced they are challenging the ACC grant of rights.
They said in order to break the rights without a court order, it's going to cost them over half a billion dollars.
The Florida State is going to challenge them in court.
And this could set off another massive wave of realignment with the Big 10 basically in the Catbird seat.
But Chip, as a Hawkeye fan, I am a little nervous about a school challenging the grant of rights because Iowa is a very solid program with very competitive sports across the board.
But we are not an Ohio State.
We are not a Michigan.
We're not a blue blood, so to speak.
And to have that makes me very nervous.
Tell me I'm wrong on this issue,
Chip.
Sorry, I'm not going to disappoint you, Scott.
You make a very, very valid point.
All conferences have to be concerned if Florida State's going to go out and try and break a contract and take everyone to court.
The Big 10 has to worry about that.
The SEC has to worry about that because SEC or Big 10
For all we know it could be Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, maybe a handful of other teams going off and doing their own thing.
They've got the money.
They've got Texas and Oklahoma going in the SEC.
So we know both those schools have money.
And we all know money talks.
And we know that networks love to throw the money out to the big programs.
So yes, it has to leave the schools like Iowa, like Nebraska, like Wisconsin, Illinois,
A little bit nervous as to what is going to happen on this and what's the court system going to say and what are they going to allow to happen.
You know, as we talk about everything going on, John, you and I have had conversations.
I've had conversations with people that are pretty connected to the football program.
There is a little bit of an angst in the university right now, but we have a stable group of coaches.
Kurt Ferenc will be going on until his 26th year.
It appears where I was led to believe this fall this might be the end of the Ferenc era in Iowa City, but he's going to come back.
We have Lisa Bluter, who is, you know, in her mid-60s, but has that Iowa program in the national spotlight.
Tom Brands has a great wrestling program.
Coach Heller has a tremendous baseball program.
But now with everything going on on the landscape, you know, a lot of pressure is on President Wilson, as well as Interim Athletic Director Beth Getz, who has officially applied to be the new Athletic Director at Iowa.
This is some serious times moving forward at the university that we need to keep our eye on.
Both Scott, you're exactly correct.
And the juxtaposition as follows.
Iowa fans are incredibly loyal, but allow that's because the school has put out a very competitive product.
I mean, think about this.
On Thursday night in Iowa City,
You had literally the entire campus dismissed for Christmas and New Year's break.
There's nobody left in Iowa City.
And yet, on Thursday night, in the dead of winter, on the shortest day of the year, it was still a completely packed Carver Hawkeye Arena.
Now,
Hawke fans have always been loyal, but for Caitlin Clark to draw a packed house when all the students are gone is absolutely incredible.
And it's paralleled over Nebraska by the Husker women's volleyball team.
Congratulations, national champion runners up in volleyball at Kin to the Hawkeye women hoopsters who were national champion runners.
up last year in basketball.
So Scott, how to keep that quality going?
It is a concern and my biggest worry is that we have aging staff and as NIL and portals become more of the cause celebs and the modus operandi for successful programs, can old school coaches get it done?
It worries me that Matt Rule just pulled in a five-star quarterback recruit that certainly could have made a difference in the Black Friday game, Scott.
So we see the advent and the rise of some programs.
Wisconsin, another one.
And now with no divisions, we're being thrown into Lyons Den and we're going to really have to up our game, Scott.
You know absolutely and that's gonna be how Iowa approaches this moving forward because they are at a crossroads and you know Kirk is getting up there.
He's in his late 60s Phil Parker, you know, he's there
But at the end of the day, you know, I joked with Chip and the guys on the text thread.
You talked about, you know, the five-star quarterback.
Well, we see what Phil Parker's defense can do with a five-star quarterback.
So I'll take my chance with Phil Parker's defense any day.
But you are right.
It is a new era right now in college sports.
And Chip, I don't know if there's going to be any
you
know i
would say regulation but maybe tightening down on the portal uh... on all these transfers i just don't know but it is uh... no longer the big ten or college football that we even were accustomed to even five years ago
scott i i think you're you're hitting it there what they're gonna have to do something at the colleges as a whole some type of organization it's not going to be in c double-a
to try and get a handle on this NIL situation.
USC's coach came out I think about a week ago and had in a press conference a comment about it to where he alluded to the fact that the
the football schools just forget basketball forget all the other sports that just maybe the schools on the football side are gonna have to break away and do something and get a grip on this and even went so far as to say which they should and in hindsight the way it is right now they should actually just fold the NIL programs into the athletic department there it's it's it's kind of phony the way they've got it set up right now sure the schools can't be involved in the NIL but you know to a point there's got to be some direction going on there that
There has to be some coordination going on in the background to keep it legal.
So it's something that's going to have to happen.
And that was actually breaking news earlier here about 10 days ago.
Beth Getz, the interim athletic director, she rolled in some news staff as well as brought the NIL basically in-house to do a better coordination.
So I think you are going to see forward thinkers like Beth Getz maybe taking the lead on that.
And that is why it is so important
uh... to have her in my opinion as the new athlete director at iowa because she is a forward-thinking person and we've seen even this fall she will make tough decisions and that's what i would need right now they need a leader and i think that gets get that
well you know yes exactly and john may have some input on this having been in the legislature is uh... there's a lot of states that are getting involved in the n i l from a legislative standpoint to the point where they're tying the n c double his hands saying
We have our rules.
We're going to set up by NIL this way.
And the NCAA, you are not going to come in here and tell us how to do it.
We're going to allow our colleges to do what they think is best.
And so you have to wonder if schools like Iowa and Nebraska are going to go to the state legislature and say, we need a little help with this.
Would you clean up a little bit of it so we can get some more freedom and access?
John, do you think that's a possibility?
Chip, it's a magnificent question because the NCAA has been operating illegally.
at least in Iowa, not even registered with the Secretary of State's office, and they certainly are conducting business in Iowa, read TV and radio revenues.
So the states need to get the upper hand here, because it's a whole new world.
Think about it.
A fellow named Manning, who's the backup quarterback for Texas, is making almost four times what the NFL MVP, potentially Brock Purdy, will be making.
So if they're completely
new era, no question about it.
Even some athletes that are not superstars in their own right are making huge NIL money.
And I have to close this segment with my Libby Dunn update.
Libby is upset that she's not getting a million hits recently with her post on TikTok.
Now look, Libby, I got some advice for you.
This ain't rocket science.
Your cache
was the fact that you were single and available and eligible.
You know, the Jim Carrey figures saying, so you're saying there's still a chance to holly there.
And so now we're in a situation where she can't figure out why she's not getting a million hits.
Well, she's posting pictures of her with Skeens, her boyfriend.
Now, Livy, you can't have both ways.
When guys see you posting photos with your boyfriend, they ain't gonna be hit like, and furthermore, they're gonna think they don't have a shot.
So, Scotty, I think Livy's either gotta dump the boyfriend or keep it under wraps, what say you.
Yeah, probably and I would say that I was watching you try to thread the needle there as I'm watching or envisioning the lovely gracious Mrs. Jacobson glaring at you from across the table there So well done on that.
I look like the Jacob will have happy and merry Christmas here in a couple days
Yeah, as long as as long as the couch is still out on the front porch everything will be fine
in
that household
Hey, all three of the giant dogs were on the bed last night and I noticed
There was no room for me there, but that there might be a reason why that fence is in the back yard.
She's at least protecting me from external predators if I'm a fence is so to speak.
So, you know, John, I'm John.
I know you've got that that Honda pilot or passport.
There's plenty of room for sleeping in the back of that if you fold the seats down, if you have to
get the engine going,
turn the heater on, you'll be good.
And a 60 degrees down here.
We're going to have to have a Christmas picnic.
Well, next up, we're going to find out how to stay healthy during this cold and flu season.
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Chip Regman anchoring live and yours truly on the road on special assignment with the doctors in the house.
The Honorable David Hartsuch, MD, and Dr. Edward F. Borgherty, MD Central Hall of Fame.
The courageous doctors of conscience that had the greatest cure records of physicians during COVID.
And today,
We're going to talk about how to beat COVID aftermath long COVID chip question.
Thanks for coming on, guys.
The question I have is regarding Dr. Peter McCullough.
I'm sure you're familiar with him.
He's been out in the forefront of this anti-vax issues that we've been having.
And he has proposed a month or two ago, maybe even longer, about how to detox the body from the spike protein that comes from the so-called vaccine that we've been given.
I'd like to have you guys' opinions, your thoughts on this.
Are you familiar with it?
Well, I'll answer that as Dr. Hartfetch and I was recently down in Texas in the conference and heard Peter McCulloch talk about this very same thing and I think his presentation was very compelling and you know the nano kind nano kinase and bromelain I think that the the the real issue here is that they they have introduced this RNA
thing, I won't even call it a vaccine, but what it does is it causes your body to produce spike protein and the problem is there's no way of shutting off the production.
It's one thing to increase the elimination which is what Peter McCullough's protocol is supposed to do is increase the elimination of the spike protein but it is the we have to learn how to figure out how to shut off the production.
of the spike protein and right now we don't know that.
And so what's happening is you have individuals are getting large amounts of spike protein produced to a point where it exhausts their immune system.
I think Megan Kelly has come out recently with concerns about the effects it had on her health and regret about the vaccine.
I think the government should be doing some research on post
post-vex nation regret and also how to shut off the production of spike protein.
The answer is don't take it it to begin with.
Great point Dr. Hart says Dr. Fogarty way in here.
Well, I agree completely with Dr. Hartzage, but I will add in that we actually do know how to shut down spike protein production when it's in the form of a virus because Tony Fauci in 1991 proved that we could use glutathione amino acid precursors to shut down HIV replication itself level and then Stanford University
put that into clinical medicine and did human trials showing that HIV patients who were on just a moderate dose of glutathione amino acid precursor therapy were living longer, better quality of life, and surviving having HIV.
It's a very simple mother nature's greatest, greatest trinity of amino acids.
Come to
form with glutathione.
Yes, and that is
accurate.
Because I'm using it.
It's called Formula
200, which is you can purchase that at dbestimmunesupport.com.
Our good friend Joe Casarino is the distributor for Dr. Albert Crum,
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Obtained the patents in Canada for the antiviral claims that he made with the Canadian government.
He started that process in 2015, and the patents came down in February of 2020.
And that patent is actually a national asset to America for this pandemic fight.
And I also incorporated that whole concept into the North Dakota CARES Act grant, naturopathic medical countermeasures of hyperbaric enhanced medicine.
So I also threw into the North Dakota countermeasures the use of any version of hyperbaric medicine or hyperbaric therapy from the lowest of the low up to high end hyperbaric therapy for countermeasures to COVID-19.
And of course, brought that into the great state of Iowa in the Northwest corner and then taught Dr. Hart such
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Let's go to Hawkeye Hawkeye Decision 24, guys.
Henry Mancini will bring us in with appropriate colonial fanfare.
What's the latest?
Bogey, I think you were down talking to
Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Talk to us.
Yeah, I was in Lincoln last week to meet with Tim, and I've been one of his top medical advisors.
going back almost well more than 10 years actually with the whole Children's Health Defense team and anybody listening please if you're wanting to learn about the cutting-edge information regarding vaccine issues and health matters Children's Health Defense is literally this repository of some of the greatest information of importance regarding the pandemic and other matters but
So Bobby signed my Fauci book for me that he wrote, and we had a nice chat, and I got to meet some of the keys Nebraska legislators who are actually Republican, helping out on the campaign here in Nebraska.
And I think he's such a man of...
science, law, integrity.
If you look at his legal career, he is always fighting for the little guy.
And that's exactly what he's going to do when he becomes president or if he's the attorney general in the Trump administration.
And, you know, this last week, we had this horrific, literally horrific decision by the Colorado Supreme Court saying, uh, but we're not going to let Donald Trump, former president Donald Trump run in and be on the ballot in Colorado.
And
Bobby Kennedy was right out there on the forefront, you know, seeing how
how this is ridiculous and undemocratic.
And, of course, Vivek Ramaswamy kind of led that charge as well on the Republican ticket.
So I think the Coloradoans are messing with political fire.
Oh, they are.
Leave it to the Democratic
Party to say that the only way to save democracy is to kill democracy.
Dr. Hartzick, you served in the Iowa State Senate.
You were with Bobby Kennedy at the Iowa State Fair in late August.
You and I are both Republicans, and yet his message resonates heavily.
Give us the lay of the land.
Well, I was in the crowd there at the State Fair with everybody else, and he was talking about the carbon capture pipeline, and what a corporatist debacle this is, and how you have
corruption in government, corruption in the, you know, the corporate, the corporates who run government.
And I was amazed at his knowledge and his ability to articulate something that's, which is actually a local, it seems to be a local issue, but it's actually a national issue of broadening it to include the, just as an example of the, of the immense, you know,
problems in our government of corruption.
And I felt very optimistic after listening to him talk.
And I believe that if Americans stand up and insist on good government, I think we're getting it.
But we cannot allow corruption in any form.
Doctor, you nailed it.
And if you think it's a problem, as we all do, that it's the negra central threat to the American Republic
ban a political party and to ban 80 million American people from voting for a candidate for public office, think of what they'll try to do to keep Bobby Kennedy from ballot access in all 50 states.
But Bobby Kennedy Jr.
still, I don't believe, has secret service detail
on his campaign.
So, Biden has put him in great mortal peril and is shameful.
John, I don't think that the Democratic Party alone is the culprit, because I think there are many within the Republican Party, and I'm a Republican.
And yet, I see that within the Republican Party,
They are what I could call controlled opposition.
Yes, totally.
We do not have an opposition party.
We have the unit party.
We have the unit party.
Correct.
And, you know, John, you know this more than anybody because it was there is the Republican Party that took the torpedoed your medical freedom bill.
Yep.
And and and if all the Republican candidates they're standing up right now, who's is anybody talking about the vaccine?
There's a corruption involved with any doctor who scans up and criticizes the public health response.
It's so bad.
When I propose a nursing home camera bill, so that loved ones could look in on their nursing home patients to help interdict abuse, theft, etc.
That bill was such a threat to the healthcare establishment that when I attached, when I attached my bill as an amendment to another bill, so I could actually speak to it since my bill wasn't even given a subcommittee hearing.
They killed the entire other bill, which would have passed unanimously just because of the fear they had of me addressing that issue on the microphone on the floor of the legislature.
That's how bad the GOP leadership is.
We've got to find a way to throw the lobbyists out of the state house.
From your personal political career, John, you virtually did that by being technically an independent with a Republican moniker
in all
of your campaigns.
You're going out and you're getting funding from the people.
You're constituency.
But then when we have all these lobbyists like up in North Dakota,
These CO2 pipeline people, Summit from out of Iowa, all of the oil play people are basically, they basically overrun the decision making body of the legislature
in
North Dakota.
So all of this stuff comes down to latent corporatism in the end.
And so I just see you and Bobby Candy Jr.
as parallel.
characters in this whole independence movement.
Let's bring the real vote of the people back to the people.
Well I'm motivated because I saw the persecution that government unleashed against the physicians who had the best track record of curing and saving lives at the front end and to see them punish while these beings who are killing people with remdesivir and ventilator
cashing it in, go unpunished, it's just revolting.
There will be more through this, guys, but in the meantime, Christ our Savior is born, Christ has died, Christ has risen, and He will come again.
We celebrate this Christmas, the historic birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We anticipate His coming again and this year
In two days, we celebrate his coming into our hearts yet again for 2024.
Guys, God bless you and thank you for joining us.
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Welcome back.
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Not only that, Curtis, but I've been out to your communities.
If it's as warm as it could be, people can have a Christmas picnic out there in your commons.
You've got everything from a dog park, your frisbee golf, to the pantry.
You've got it all covered there.
And I always talk about how beautiful it is out there.
The beautifully kept lawns, the neighborhoods.
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it's such affordable pricing, but Chip Regman, these guys survived the dry show better than the regular housing did.
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These are structurally sound ship, and they've got a question or comment.
Well,
that's the question I had was being an Iowa State engineer alum.
I always think about things in those terms when it comes to homes and buildings, etc.
Can you tell us about the structural integrity of the homes that you build?
How do they compare to on-site building and other methods?
How safe is this thing for people moving into?
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Not only that, but you guys have your own infrastructure at your communities there, beautiful streets, security, safety in front and vetting of who will be living in these communities.
Correct.
And we're a planned community.
People who come and live here, they're going to
have a brief background check.
We want to make sure it's a safe, clean community.
If someone's had a few hiccups along their way, we don't expect perfection, but anything that's been real severe, we would ask maybe that they apply a few years down the road.
Here with Curtis Haynes
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We have never seen a time, Curtis, when manufactured home.
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Chip, there is good news.
Christ our Savior is born.
Jesus takes human flesh and rescues us from our sins, paving the way
for eternal life.
It is great news.
Chip, a blessed Christmas to you.
Merry Christmas and God bless us, everyone.
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